Cognizance (UK) - Inquisition (2013)

Country: United Kingdom
Released on: self-released

Tracklist:

1. Clones of the Night Sky 03:28
2. The Perennial Struggle 03:40
3. Epistemology 03:19
4. Defying a Natural Process 03:12
13:39

A study by the European commission recently showed, that file sharing was not only not harming the music industry, but was good for sales. Me finding this underground gem of a band, called Cognizance on a big Death Metal sharing forum shows this once again. Although the CD of this EP is already sold out I am able to listen to this and to inform you about it and recommend this. Anyway.
Just take a look at ths awesome cover. Epic piece of art for an epic release. Brilliant.
This CD is just a brilliant piece of work. It shows how rich and entertaining a technical approach in Death Metal can be. Dynamic song structures, interesting riffing, melodic soli, high paced brutality and musical brilliance are the core ingredients for this piece of work. The song writing is brillant and a real pleasure to listen to. The mixture of creative riff work and solo parts thrown in regularly just works brilliantly. The highly melodic and extremely pleasing solo parts take away nothing of the intensity and brutality of the songs. The vocals are straight forward forced Death Metal growls. Brutal, massive and executed perfectly. The drum work is tight as fuck, fast and accompanies the flying riffs perfectly. The production of this EP is absolutely stunning for a debut release. A rich sound, worthy of a full-lenght. Both the production and the music prove the passion that was put into this self-released CD by these two guys from the UK. This band would be a candidate for the Unique Leader roster. Let's just hope they don't go to that shitty label.

Highly entertaining Death Metal release. Brutal, emotional, fast, technical.

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